Alex Soros: ‘I Don’t Think Technology Is a Fundamental Issue in Democracy; Democracy Is Messy’

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SOROS: “But I don’t think that that’s the — I don’t think that that’s the fundamental — I don’t think technology is a fundamental issue in democracy. Democracy is messy. I mean, you know, democracy is about contestation of ideas. It’s about plurality, it’s about people having different truths actually. Now, fundamentally how society lives together civically in those — in those contestations is obviously — is obviously quite, quite tricky. But I think that if we play too much on this disinformation card, we’re taking responsibility away from ourselves to actually create a narrative that inspires people to vote and to believe in — in democracy and democratic institutions. Now, on the institutional part, I think that we can talk about institutions as these abstract things, but institutions are also about people.”

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